Accused baby killers ‘bonded in booze’

A financial consultant and her Lithuanian lover accused of shaking their baby girl to death were bound together by alcohol, Old Bailey heard. Clare Sanders, 44, and her Lithuanian lover Tomas Vaitkevicius, 45, allegedly shook four-week-old Eva on three separate occasions during her short life. Eva’s tiny body suffered rib fractures and her cause of death was given as traumatic brain and spinal cord injury – but the couple blame eachother in a ‘cut throat’ defence. Tom Little, prosecuting, said:…